Gender & caste
By: edited by Anupama Rao.
Contributors: Rao, Anupama.
Series: Issues in contemporary Indian feminism; Issues in contemporary Indian feminism (London, England)
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Poor women -- India.; Dalits -- India.; Women -- India -- Social conditions.; Caste -- India.; Feminism -- India.
Other titles: Gender and caste
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-373).
Originally published: New Delhi : Kali for Women in association with the Book Review Literary Trust, 2003, in series: Issues in contemporary Indian feminism.
Table of contents: title: We made history, too : women in the early untouchable liberation movement / Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar; title: Dalit movement and women's movements / Gabriele Dietrich; title: Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru; title: Why I am not a Hindu / Kancha Ilaiah; title: A Dalit feminist standpoint / Sharmila Rege; title: Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression / Bela Malik; title: Dalit women's cry for liberation : "my rights are rising like the sun, will you deny this sunrise?" / Pranjali Bandhu; title: Pan on fire : eight Dalit women tell their stories / Sumitra Bhave; title: On a Dalit woman's testimonio / M.S.S. Pandian; title: The subaltern speaks / Majid H. Siddiqi; title: The women's question in the Dravidian movement c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi; title: Reconceptualising gender : Phule, Brahmanism and Brahmanical patriarchy / Uma Chakravarti; title: Periyar, women and an ethic of citizenship / V. Geetha; title: Dr Ambedkar and the empowerment of women / Eleanor Zelliot; title: Dalit women in western ethnography / Mary E. John; title: Caste and women / Leela Dube; title: Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Vasanth Kannabiran & Kalpana Kannabiran; title: The impossible subject : caste and the gendered body / Susie Tharu; title: Understanding Sirasgaon : notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of "atrocity" / Anupama Rao; title: The downtrodden among the downtrodden : an interview with a Dalit agricultural labourer / Gail Omvedt; title: Of land and Dalit women / Kancha Ilaiah; title: Unmusical chairs / P. Sainath; title: Head-loads and heartbreak / P. Sainath; title: The Hindu code bill for the liberation of women / Pratima Pardeshi.